the muddy bottom of her drawers

[caravaggista]

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, A Reading from Homer, detail (1885).

[marcolinguardo]

Camille Claudel

[manuymarcosspain-deactivated201]

[mira-mel]

[ventodiventohgjui]

[with-grace-and-guts]

morning by lisa c. shen on Flickr.

[mixematch]

[haidaspicciare]

William Faulkner

[whatilove]

[10on10]

[microbe]

[ehxiste]

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[glorifythehour]

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

William Faulkner - The Town: (via glorifythehour)

[klinfield]

Paul Newman’s Letter To His Wife On Their Wedding Day

“Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.  A good marriage must be created.  In the Art of Marriage, the little things are the big things.  It is never being too old to hold hands.  It is remembering to say ‘I love you’ at least once a day.  It is never going to sleep angry. It is at no time taking the other for granted; the courtship should not end with the honeymoon; it should continue through all the years.  It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.  It is standing together facing the world.  It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.  It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.  It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have the wings of an angel.  It is not looking for perfection in each other.  It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.  It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.  It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.  It is finding rooms for things of the spirit.  It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.  It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and obligation is reciprocal.  It is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.”

[writerswritecompany]

[heaveninawildflower]

n85_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Honeysuckle

Familiar wild flowers figured and described. London,Cassell and company,

[todaywaslovely]

Honeysuckle cordial via flickr

[anatomyofmelancholy]

…but who loved death above all, who loved only death, loved and lived in a deliberate and almost perverted anticipation of death as a lover loves and deliberately refrains from the waiting willing friendly tender incredible body of his beloved, until he can no longer bear not the refraining but the restraint and so flings, hurls himself, relinquishing, drowning.

(via anatomyofmelancholy)